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Coup De Foudre

THE ARCHBISHOP AND THE LADY: The Story of Fenelon and Madame Guyon. By Michael de la Bedoyere. (Collins, 16s.) THE duc de Saint-Simon, in his encyclopxdic memoirs, devotes some......

A Study In Impotence

BEAVERBROOK : A Study in Power and Frustration. By Toni Driberg. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 21s.) THE cautionary tale used to be told of a penurious peer who made his living,......

No Antimony In The Cesspool

HOW CHARLES BRAVO DIED, By Yseult Bridges. (Jarrolds, 21s.) IN 1876, the high afternoon of the Victorian day (income tax, 2nd in the £; divorces, a few hundred in the year),......